It's funny that a seasoned expert like you considers supplying a huge army on the move with 625,000 horses (which themselves need supplies in...
I already explained that the bulk of the axis Infantry is defending the central border, where the bulk of the red army is. Soviet defensive...
There is more food in N Sweden than in many areas in the USSR or Norway where partisans, Jews, etc, lived for years in the USSR, some to continue...
To secure their flank, to capture the KV tank factory and others in the first week, to secure shipping in the Baltic, to gain a port to supply the...
There are 150,000 advancing from E Prussia-N Poland, 300,000 from coastal Romania and 100,000 from Finland (they are not all there on June 22,...
Have you seen the mountains between Norway and NW Sweden? Coastal Sweden is relatively flat compared to mountanous Norway. If You attack Norway...
Who needs more than 2 battleships to defend Midway. Not that there were 7 available. There were plenty of destroyers, cruisers', P-38, B-26, etc,...
If the allies are so short of rubber that they are recycling at great cost and difficulty, the loss of the largest rubber producer (Ceylon),...
I use no more hindsight than you do. You pick the parts of hindsight you like and ignore that it is pure hindsight. Gee, you already forgot about...
Thanks, I corrected it. The USN wasted a lot of resources blockading huge areas, which could have been avoided by capturing a few key areas. It...
The choice of general is much less important than the fact that Hitler sent a huge force to the Balkans to supposedly secure his S flank and a...
Obviously a larger force would have been used for a thrust from New Orleans. The Union had plenty of troops, but poorly deployed. Obvious areas...
There are 450 Panzers. through Helsinki and some arrive while the invasion is starting (Hitler can tell Molotov that he is preparing to invade...
Recycling rubber in 1942? The 7th Australian division was not in Ceylon. the small 2/7 battalion was. However, Ceylon is large and much of it is...
Thanks a lot, I just corrected it.
The blockade, liberation of New Orleaans, etc, were implemented quite fast and with limited losses (compared to the wasted time and heavy,...
The Soviets did know about massive German deployment and chose to build weak frontline defenses in order not to provoke Hitler. Stalin thought...
In contrast to PH, during the Ceylon raid the Japanese destroyed large fuel tanks in Ceylon, which would not be bombed but captured duing an...
Sardinia and Corsica will also allow the excellent Mosquito to develop sgreat potential in late 1942, for recce and as a bomber and bomber...
Invading is one thing, expecting a nation to be ruled by his daft brother is another. I referred to troop use during the invasion od Spain....
